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The court he practised, not the courtier's art: Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.
john dryden— 1681 Of the loyalist James Butler, Duke of Ormond. Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.825-6.
It is ofcourseatruthuniversallyacknowledgedthat large overseas military commitments cannot be sustained without even larger economic resources.
Niall Ferguson— 2004 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire.
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.
tony benn— In New Politics (1970)
The present assault on capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich—a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.
stephen johnson field— Concurring in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 157 U. S. 429, 607 (1895).
That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.
gene fowler— Gene Fowler, as quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7: About Wilson Mizner.
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
halford e. luccock— As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude
It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.
alexander maclaren— P. 294. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.
michael parenti— 5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 252
Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.
walter reuther— Writing in The New Republic, Vol. 114 (1946)
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
andrew tobias— Chapter 9, Too Much Insurance, p. 155
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.
mark tobey— Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 39: Statement concerning his painting ‘Threading Light’
[Veblenian institutionalism was] part of a much larger movement of dissent, that includes London School Institutionalists, Oxford Antimarginalists and the German Historical School (especially its second generation.
kenneth boulding— Boulding (1957) "A New Look at Institutionalism". In: The American Economic Review Vol 47, no.2, p.3 as cited in: Klimina, Anna, (2008) "On misuse of the term “institutionalist” in the analysis of Russian academic economics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of Michail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919)" Economics Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 2 pp. 2
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.
david brewster— More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856), p. 207
The whole, though larger than any of its parts, does not necessarily obscure their separate identities.
william o. douglas— Writing for the court, United States v. Powers, 307 U.S. 214 (1939).
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
john dryden— Act IV, scene I
The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.
paul graham— "Two Kinds Of Judgment", April 2007
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 2 (The Reluctant Dragon)
Eventually you can see that your pain was part of a much larger picture that God was carefully painting.
james macdonald— p. 87 (Always True (Moody, 2011))
The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principal of mutual advantage.
john rawls— Chapter II, Section 13, pg. 79
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
jim starlin— On the Death of the New Gods storyline, as quoted in
There was a larger pattern we worked at: they on a big loom, I with a small needle.
r. s. thomas— "In Context", p.13
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933)
The birth of a sand grain is a microscopic event, a flap of butterfly’s wings heralding greater change and a larger creation. Each grain carries the equivalent of the DNA of its parents and develops a character through its life and is moulded partly by its environment. Compared to the scale of a human life, however, the sand grains’ story is never ending, and rebirth is a regular event.
— By Michael Welland in p.3 (Sand: The Never-ending Story)
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal . It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure .
— As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude
To remember the loneliness, the fear and the insecurity of men who once had to walk alone in huge factories, beside huge machines to realize that labor unions have meant new dignity and pride to millions of our countrymen human companionship on the job, and music in the home to be able to see what larger pay checks mean, not to a man as an employee, but as a husband and as a father to know these things is to understand what American labor means.
— Adlai Stevenson, speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City (September 22, 1952), in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 62.
Most of the puranas are highly sectarian as is the Shiva Purana, which is one of the longer and larger puranas. It gives an exhaustive account Shiva’s mythic deeds – many of which have become the common mythic currency for many traditional Hindus – as well as instructions for how, where, and when Shiva is to be worshipped.
— James G. Lochtefeld, in "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N-Z (2002)", p.637
Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world.
— Robert Fludd, in Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the , p.24
...suppose ? without weight, but ? possessing weight; and let ? pass over space ??, but ? in the same time pass over a space ??, for that which has weight will be carried through the larger space. If now the heavy body be divided in the proportion that space ?? bears to ??, ...and if the whole is carried through the whole space ??, then it must be that a part in the same time would be carried through ??...
— Book III Ch. II as quoted by Florian Cajori (1899), as Aristotle's explanation of why bodies fall quicker in exact proportion to their weight.
